Woman accidentally sells her $18,000 diamond earrings for $20 at garage sale because she forgot she had kept them in the jacket she was getting rid of

Diamonds are a girl's best friend - unless you accidentally sell them for just $20.

Dori Rhoades has been 'beating herself up' everyday since the May garage sale when she unwittingly sold a denim jacket with her $18,000 diamond earrings hidden in the pocket for $20 to a complete stranger.

To make matters worse, the 38-year-old also kept a ring her husband gave her and $1,500 in cash inside the jean jacket - ironically to hide it in case she ever got robbed.

Dori Rhoades wearing her $18,000 diamond earrings

These are the flashy diamond earrings Dori Rhoades accidentally sold for $20

Dori Rhoades, pictured with her family, also left a ring her husband gave her after their daughter was born in the denim jacket which she sold at a garage sale

The devastated Huntington Beach mother of two said she wasn't thinking clearly when she put the old jacket up for sale.

'I volunteer in my kids' classrooms
multiple times a week, I work full time, I think anyone who is a mother
knows,' she told CBS LA through tears.

'You give so much of yourself that sometimes your brain stops
working.'

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Not only are the earrings extraordinarily expensive, they also hold sentimental value.

Rhoades, owner of Los Angeles-based wholesale maternity business Conception Showroom, said one of the
diamonds was a gift from her father to her mother, who later gave the
diamond to her.

The ring she accidentally sold was given to her by her husband after their daughter was born, and the $1,500 cash was being saved for a family vacation.

Dori Rhoades has been 'beating herself up' since accidentally selling her $18,000 diamond earrings at garage sale for $20

Pricey: Dori Rhoades' sentimental diamond earrings were worth about $18,000 according to a recent appraisal

Dori Rhoades is kicking herself after selling her denim jacket at a garage sale in which she kept her diamond earrings and $1,500 in cash

But Rhoades remains hopeful that
her precious keepsakes will be returned, particularly after reading about theLaguna Niguel womanwho recently recovered her $23,000 wedding ring her husband sold at a garage sale.

'It’s my hope someone out there sees the story and knows the person who
bought the jacket,' she told CBS LA.